Atiku Abubakar

Ogbeh's supporters strongly back Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the party's presidential candidate for 2007...

Obasanjo won this latest trial of strength in the ruling party but Ogbeh still has influence there and through the political network that Atiku Abubakar inherited from the late Shehu Musa Yar'Adua...

Battle lines for 2007 are already being drawn between Vice President Atiku Abubakar former President Ibrahim Babangida and Mohammed Buba Marwa with little popular enthusiasm...

He is thought to be on poor terms with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar (AC Vol 45 No 2)...

However with his own supporters in Kaduna uneasy over the prospective choice in 2007 between Atiku Abubakar the current Vice-President and retired general and former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida no one is ruling out Buhari's chances of standing again ­ or even of an appeal for popular support against the current government...

Frontrunners vying to take over the governing People's Democratic Party after Obasanjo are Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former military leader Ibrahim Babangida...

At last weekend's conference of the governing People's Democratic Party in Abuja Obasanjo lashed out at ambitious lieutenants such as Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Orji Kalu now campaigning for the presidential ticket in 2007...

Kupolukun's rival for the top job Greg Ero was close to Obasanjo's critic Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...

' On 27 October UN chiefs held an urgent meeting with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to seek government intervention to end the 'impasse around vaccine safety'...

El-Rufai's supporters say the committee's verdict reflects the interests of the Senate hierarchy plus those of Obasanjo and his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar with whom he is increasingly at odds...

Ngige was kept in a hotel room from which he managed to alert Vice-President Atiku Abubakar using a smuggled telephone...